Reportly a 13 year old kid fathered a child with a 15 year old girl…
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece
Granted the Sun isn’t super reliable but…could this really happen? The article said his voice hasn’t changed yet. If he hasn’t hit puberty how in the hell did he father a child? And my god…was that 15 year old girl so hard up for a boyfriend that she went after a 12 year old kid?
Yes, it could happen physically.
She was probably 14 when she got pregnant. Possibly she’s very young for her age, mentally and emtionally, just not physically. I admit that they do make a very odd couple - he looks like a little child, and she looks like a young woman.
Teenagers having babies together has happened forever, and always will. In a way, the fact that this is ‘news’ show just how far we’ve come, in that this is uncommon enough to be marked upon.
During high school I knew plenty of fathers in their early teens, including two who became fathers at 13. I also knew a few thirteen and fourteen year old mothers. They weren’t very smart or mature to begin with, and the individual fates of their children aren’t anything I’d want to dwell on for very long.
Of course it could happen. Why couldn’t it? In the video linked to in a recent thread here about Salma Hayek’s boobs saving the world, they mentioned girls in that particular part of Africa routinely have their first children at 13 years old.
As long as the boys can ejaculate semen, they can be the fathers. Voice and puberty have nothing to do it with it.
I guess what I was really wondering is, can a boy who hasn’t even gotten through puberty father a child? Color me ignorant about male puberty but I thought semen production didn’t start right at the beginning.
Perhaps this misconception is also what lead to this conception. 
Also, while what you’re thinking is a misconception, you’re not alone - others on another messageboard also thought this. I wonder if the other people on this thread have looked at the picture in the article? He is incredibly young-looking for a father.
Most boys start puberty around age 11 and begin producing semen a year after puberty starts. Voices don’t finish changing for a few years after that. (wiki says age 15)
or…22:(
Can anyone say Mary Kay Letourneau?
One of my former coworkers was living with a 27-year-old man who had seven children by various mothers. The oldest child was 15.
Another coworker said her son was getting teased by the boys in his sixth grade class because he wasn’t a baby-daddy yet. For those not familiar with US grades…sixth graders are generally 11 and 12.
I don’t see how a child could be an effective parent. To be a parent, you’ve got to have garnered some life skills. He’s still in a postion where *he *needs to be parented. How cemented is his relationship with his girlfriend? Can you successfully sustain a long term relationship at that age?
When asked ‘how are you going to cope financially?’, he replied ‘what’s financially?’ As I understand it, his parents and the state will be footing the bill.
Methinks he’s just one of several boys that girl has had sex with. And I sure hope his parents are smart enough to demand a DNA test, because he looks waaay too delayed to father a child. Just look at the kid’s feet – they’re tiny. Normally, a boy’s feet start growing concurrently with (ahem) “other” parts of the body, and it doesn’t look like he’s even reached that stage yet.
Anything’s possible, of course. But I think it’s far more likely that she’s covering up for whoever the real father is.
This is one of those things that make glad to be gay. I was fooling around with neighbor boys and such at that age, I can only imagine what could have happened had one of us been female.
She looks a little slow, but that’s just me. Someone who reads all the celeb baby pieces in OK! and just knows it would be fab to have a little cute baby that she could show off and who’d love her forever!
She seems to be treating it like a rag doll in the vid.
My SO was fourteen when his son was born. It happens.
:eek:!
Yup. Looking at that kid, he’s at the ‘stage’ of tittering about poo jokes and peeping at girlie boobies in magazines (to laugh at, not to be aroused by). He’s certainly not a testosterone-addled lad just yet…but as** KGS** noted, anything’s possible I guess, but something about this is just not quite right.
DNA test, fer’ sure…and if the parents of the parents are too dumb to request one, it should be ordered by the ‘state’.
What a monumental fuckup for all concerned. :rolleyes:
You think they’d request a DNA test even if he wasn’t that young-looking. Wouldn’t you want to know for sure?
Can’t find the link right at this minute but there are apparently four or five other boys who believe they might be the father. Is the new mother some sort of heiress?